Bottle-stopper shield



Jan. 8 1924. I 1,479,985

D. ENOMOTQ BOTTLE STOPPER SHIELD Filed Nov. 18. 1922 l/VVE/VTD/i' D.END/V1270 A rf5 Patented Jan. 8, 1924.

UNITED ST DANIEL ENOMOTO, OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE-STOPPEB SHIELD.

Application fil ed la'o vember 18,1922. Serial No. 601,750.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, DANIEL ENOMOTO, a subject of the Emperor of Japan,residing at Berkeley, in the county of Alameda and State of California,have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stopper Shields, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bottle stoppers and hasparticular reference to shields for ink bottle stoppers, the primaryobject being to provide a simple and inexpensive shield which willprevent the fingers from coming in contact with the usually inkedportion of the cork or stopper and otherwise prevent said inked stopperor cork from soiling objects when placed upon a desk, table or othersupport.

An object of the invention is to provide a shield which is in the formof a tubular member and is adapted to be readily incorporated with theusual type of ink bottle stopper, which latter comprises a cork with aflat circular top or hand piece, the latter portion being received inone end of the tubular shield in such manner as to hold the shield inplace circumferentially spaced from and extended beyond the stopper orcork.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide novel means for securingthe tubular shield upon the top piece of the cork or stopper, the shieldpreferably being corrugated so as to provide for the wedging of the toppiece of the stopper in the corrugated portion thereof and to securelyfasten the shield in place.

The invention possesses other advantages and features some of which,with the foregoing will be set forth at length in the followingdescription where I shall outline in full that form of the inventionwhich I have selected for illustration in the drawing accompanying andforming a part of the present specification. In said drawing I haveshown one form of the construction of my invention, but it is to beunderstood that I do not limit myself to such form since the inventionas expressed in the claims may be embodied in a plurality of forms.

Referring to the drawing:

Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of the shield constructed inaccordance with my invention showing it applied to a stopper with thelatter mounted in a bottle.

Fig. 2 represents a sectional view partly in elevation, of the deviceofmy invention part of the shield being broken away and in section.

Fig. 3 represents a bottom plan view of the shield as when applied to astopper.

Referring in detail to the form of the invention shown in the drawing, 1designates a cork or other similar stopper, in this instanceparticularly adapted for an ink bottle as shown at 2. The cork orstopper 1 depends from the usual circular top or hand piece 3, which isin the form of a disk and is milled or corrugated as at 4, about itsperiphery. Ordinarily in mounting and removing a stopper of thecharacter illustrated the fingers come in contact with the stopperportion 1 and are soiled with ink or when the stopper is placed upon adesk or other support the ink thereon will be transferred onto the deskor papers or other objects coming into contact therewith. I propose toprovide a tubular cylindrical shield 5 which is open at both ends. Theshield may be made of any suitable material such as stiff paper or lightsheet metal, and is of such diameter that it will receive the circularhead or top piece 3 of the stopper and of such length that one end willextend beyond the free-end of the cork or stopper.

To provide for an economical and effective means of securing the shieldin place, the shield is corrugated as at 6 adjacent one end bothinteriorly and exteriorly, so that the circular top piece 4; may bewedged in the shield and securely held in place by an interfitting ofthe corrugations. The corrugations on the exterior of the shield willprovide for the ready grasping and turning of the stopper when insertingor removing the latter. It will thus be seen that the shield of myinvcnion may be employed as an attachment for the standard ink bottlestopper. By placing a shield with the corrugated end downinost andresting on a suitable support, the shield may be readily attached to astopper by inserting the stopper, head piece down, into the shield andcausing the corrugated periphery of the head piece to wedge in contactwith the corrugated portion of the shield. The shield in beingcircumferentially spaced from the stopper and extended beyond thefreeend of the latter, will prevent ink from being transferred from thestopper to the hand or other object, regardless of the manner in Which.the stopper is handled or the position into Which the stopper is placed.

Aside from acting as a shield, the outer surface of the device of myinvention provides space quite suitable for advertising purposes in thatit is Well adapted to re ceive a label or other advertising sticker insuch manner that the label will be displayed in an effective andconspicuous manner.

I claim:

1. In combination With a bottle stopper having a top piece of greaterdiameter than the stopper itself, of a tubular shield beingcircumferentially spaced from said stopper and receiving in its upperend the circular top piece, said shield extending beyond the free end ofthe stopper, the top piece and upper end of said shield beingsubstantially flush With one another.

2. In combination With a bottle stopper having a corrugated circular toppiece fastened to one end thereof, of a tubular shield beingcircumferentially spaced from said stopper and receiving in its upperend the circular top piece, said shield extending be yond the free endof the stopper, said top piece having peripheral corrugations, and saidshield having a corrugated portion 00- operating With the corrugatedportion of the top piece.

DANIEL ENOMOTO.

